Talmadge Defies Federal Subpoena In Public Service Case
Georgia Governor Thomas E. Talmdge declines to accept service for a federal court subpoena to testify in the telephone public service commission dispute. He says he will appear only as counsel for the commission, citing no jurisdiction over the governor. Deputy U S Marshal Dantzler waited to serve him, and Talmdge left a private office after a brief exchange.
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Atlanta
Talmadge
Telephone-Public Service Commission
Georgia
Hoke Smith
U. S
G. F. Dantzler
Death sentences in Scottsboro case upheld
The Alabama Supreme Court upheld the death sentences of Clarence Norris and Haywood Patterson in the Scottsboro case and set execution for August 31. It denied a motion to strike the Patterson bill of exceptions, limiting review to court records. Justice Gardner ruled the jury selection fair. two of the original nine defendants were convicted of assaulting Victoria Price on a 1931 freight train near Paint Rock.
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Montgomery
Ala
Supreme Court
Clarence Norris
Heyward Patterson
Scottsboro
Haywood Patterson
Thomas E. Knight, Jr
Norris
Lucien D. Gardner
Gardner
Victoria Price
Paint Rock
Commission Orders Power Company To Reduce Its Rates
The Georgia Public Service Commission ordered a rate cut for Georgia Power and Light Company, serving several south Georgia communities based in Valdosta. The move follows a earlier federal court injunction and is expected to lower the company’s annual income by about $80,463.
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Commission
Power Company
Atlanta
Georgia Public Service Commission
Georgia Power and Light Company
South Georgia
Valdosta
New Orleans
Georgia , Power and Light Company
Adamowicz brothers launch trans Atlantic flight to Warsaw
Benjamin and Joseph Adamowicz of Brooklyn depart Floyd Bennett Field at 5 40 AM in their Warsaw monoplane with Holger Hoiriss aboard for a fuel stop in Harbor Grace Newfoundland before continuing to Warsaw Poland. The trio plan six sandwiches and egg coffee for the crossing amid hopeful weather for the 48 hour flight.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
Adamowicz
Benjamin
Joseph
Warsaw
Poland
Harbor Grace
Newfoundland
Atlantic
Holger Hoiriss
Copenhagen
Miss Liberty
Great Circle
Dubin
Berlin
Hoiris
Floyd Bennett Field
Herris
Benamin
Benjamin Adamowicz
Judge Fines NRA Code Violators In Philadelphia
Judge George A. Welsh fined Harry Sley and the Sley System Garages 1250 dollars each for NRA code violations. The Sley system runs 38 garages and lots in Philadelphia Atlantic City and Newark with issues over minimum wages maximum hours and posting notices.
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Philadelphia
Harry Sley
Sley System
George A. Welsh
U. S. District Court
Sley
Atlantic City
Newark
Weather Forecast for Southeast States
South Carolina and Georgia: Generally fair tonight and Friday. Florida: Partly cloudy tonight and Friday with scattered thundershowers Friday afternoon. Alabama: Generally fair tonight, Friday partly cloudy with local thundershowers on the coast. Northwest Florida: Generally fair tonight, Friday partly cloudy with local thundershowers.
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South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Rioting in Shanghai Strain British Japanese Clash
Street rioting in Shanghai's international settlement erupted as British police attempted to arrest two Japanese sailors. Stones and bottles were thrown, with 300 Japanese joining the clash by daybreak. British and Japanese naval patrols restored order, underscoring jurisdictional disputes in the foreign quarter.
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Morris J. Harris
Associated Press
Shanghai
Great Britain
Japan
China
Hitler At Crossroads Debates Sides As Germany Turbulent
Berlin reports Hitler faces a choice between radical reformers led by Goebbels and Rosenberg and conservative moderates led by Hess Goering. Each faction seeks to shape Nazi policy including religion and state control, amid tensions after Potsdam era.
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Louis P. Lochner
Associated Press
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Hitler
Joseph Goebbels
Alfred Rosenberg
Thier Reich
Vatican
Edgar Jung
Franz von Papen
Steel Helnet War Veterans’ Organization
Solding
Jre Rudolph Hess
Withoi
Wilhelm Niick
Interior
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Ovation
Bombing Outrages Hit Austria Amid Bartho Uproar
Widespread bombings in Austria mark the twentieth anniversary of Archduke Ferdinand's assassination. Aimed at trains power plants and a printing plant, the attacks injure Heimwehr members and police, with hostages jailed and a search for bombers under way. Louis Barthou rumored target as Baron Dollfuss government faces unrest.
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Wade Werner
Associated Press Foreign Staff
Vienna
Austria
Louis Barthou
Bludenz
Barthou
Paris
Archduke Ferdinand
Sarajevo
Bosnia
Graz
Judenberg
Styria
Muehlau
Innsbruck
Heimwehr
Home Guard
Heimwehrmen
Dollfuss
Ernest von Starhemberg
Heil Hitler
Ruetz
Aachensee
Hall
Hohenem
Dirbbirn
Vorarlberg
Rolifuss
Tomorro
Judge Pittman decides hot to have bodyguard
Judge Claude Pittman announces his Cartersville police bodyguard will not accompany his speaking tour citing confidence in Georgia law enforcement to protect citizens. Patrolman Grady Harris was kept on standby after threats by Charles E. Stewart, state naval stores inspector and ally of Governor Talmadge, who criticized Pittman’s charges of a pardon racket.
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Georgia
Pittman
Grady Harris
T. W. Tinsley
Cartersville
Charles E. Stewart
Talmadge
Atlanta
Stewart
Geor
Rioting Breaks Out in Milwaukee Strike
Rioting on four fronts disrupted Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company service as about 30 000 pickets and sympathizers strained the city police. Eight hours earlier disorder had centered at Kinnickinnie avenue car barns with violence against motormen and police. West Allis and south and west side incidents left streets chaotic and cars damaged. The strike seeks a union vote to replace the company union.
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Milwaukee
Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company
American Federation of Labor
Kinnickinnie Avenue
West Allis
Fond du Lac Avenue
Dern Says Investigations Impair Defense Program
Secretary Dern told reporters investigations into the War Department are impairing the national defense program. He spoke as a House committee heard testimony and denied a GM representative proposed splitting the government truck business. Dern warned of delays in starting the army mechanization program.
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Washington
Dern
War Department
House
General Motors
Chevrolet
Chrysler
Ford
Marie Dressler Seriously Ill in Santa Barbara
Marie Dressler, 60, lies critically ill in Santa Barbara with kidney and heart complications. A nurse attends constantly as Dr Nasim says the outcome is dubious but not imminent. The actress had come to the estate for rest a few weeks ago.
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Santa Barbara
Cal
Marie Dressler
Ro Nasim
Treasury Statement Shows June Receipts and Expenditures
Treasury data for June 26 reports receipts of 6.42 million and expenditures of 12.84 million, leaving a balance of 2.62 billion. Customs receipts for the month total 18.91 million. Fiscal year to date shows receipts 3.08 billion and expenditures 6.95 billion, including 3.89 million in emergency outlays, with gold assets listed at 7.84 billion.
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Treasury
Washington
The
Darrow Resigns as NRA Recovery Board Chairman
Clarence Darrow quits as chairman of the national recovery review board saying his work is finished. W. W. Neal of Marion, North Carolina, becomes successor as the board plans to wind up in days and Darrow anticipates a trip to Europe.
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John F. Chester Washington
NRA
Darrow Review Board
Hugh S. Johnson
Darrow
Johnson
Donald R. Richbere
Charles FE. Russell
Clarece Darraw
Russell
Roosevelt
Forthcomime
Richbere
Riehhere
Washington
Clarence Darrow
National Recovery Review Board
W. W. Neal
Marion N. C
Europe
Atlanta Asphalt Plant Destroyed in Big Fire
A spectacular two alarm blaze in Atlanta destroyed the city's asphalt plant and the city garage combination shop. Explosions of chemicals and gasoline in tanks added to the drama as night watchman J. R. Todd and night mechanic J. R. Merritt fought the flames. The fire started in the asphalt plant and quickly engulfed the buildings. Damages were being assessed the next day.
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Atlanta
J. R. Todd
J. R. Merritt
Roosevelt weighs 100 mile shelter belt from Canada to Texas
President Roosevelt considers a plan to plant a shelter belt of trees 100 miles wide from Canada to the Texas Panhandle to curb drought and wind erosion. The project would take 10 to 12 years, announced by the American Tree Association with F A Silcox of the Forest Service confirming it is under study by the budget bureau and other officials.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Canada
Texas Panhandle
American Tree Association
F. A. Silcox
United States Forest Service
Hawaii
Budget Bureau
Cummings
Flood Death Toll Soars in Assam Destruction
Calcutta reports two hundred deaths and 300 villages destroyed as floods inundate 1500 square miles in Assam. Dispatches confirm vast ruin and ongoing relief efforts amid the rising toll.
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Calcutta
Assam
Three-Man Arbitration Board Named to Settle Steel Strike
President Roosevelt approved a plan by Secretary Frances Perkins to form a three member arbitration board. Judge Walter Stacey of North Carolina, Rear Admiral Henry I Wiley of New York, and James Mullenbach of Chicago were named to arbitrate the dispute while employers and workers accepted the board's jurisdiction.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Walter Stacey
North Carolina
Henry I. Wiley
New York
James Mullenbach
Chicago
Frances Perkins
Labor Organizer Plans Return To Harriman Tenn
Fred G Held a labor union organizer once tarred with threats of death says he will return to Harriman Tennessee to show AFL organizers will not be terrorized by lynch law. He spoke after his abduction and release as Harriman hosiery mills faced closures and Blue Eagle warnings. Local officials and AFL leaders sought arrest of kidnappers while workers urge a fair hearing in Washington to settle the dispute.
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Harriman
Venn
Fred G. Held
American Federation of Labor
Held
Emil Rieve
Philadelphia
Hosiery Workers Federation
Harriman Hosiery Mills
Blue Eagle
William Green
Rieve
Hill McAlister
Tennessee
McAlister
Hugh S. Johnson
NRA
Washington
Hosiery Mills
T. Asbury Wright, Jr
Johnson
Amended license for naval stores effective tonight
An amended license for processors factors and distributors handling gum turpentine gum resin crude gum and cleaned gum became effective today. The amendment approved yesterday by Secretary Wallace enlarges the scope of the original license issued May 9. Two new provisions regulate tagging and identification of naval stores products.
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Washington
Wallace
Naval
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Claude Pittman
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Marie Dessler
Darrow Board
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MR. Darrow
Texas
Board For Arbitration
Perkins
Harriman, Tenn
City
Naval Stores
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